"We're very happy. This was a huge win for us, because it was a sweeping win," Gabrielle Antolovich, board president of the Billy DeFrank LGBTQ+ Community Center, told San José Spotlight. "A lot of our people didn't even realize that the California Constitution still defined marriage as a man and a woman."
"It's always good to have good state constitutional policies, because you never know what's going to happen nationally," Antolovich said. "It's also a sweeping wake-up call that maybe we need to be more involved in local and state politics."
Proposition 32, which aimed to raise the minimum wage, failed by a slim margin. As of Wednesday afternoon it's been called with about 96% of the votes statewide counted.
Some residents were shocked by the rejection of Proposition 6, which would have ended forced labor in prisons. Others are celebrating the passage of Proposition 3, which codified the right to same-sex marriage in the state's constitution.
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